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· 4/18/1989

Massachusetts v. Morash

Citations

  • 490 U.S. 107
  • 109 S. Ct. 1668
  • 104 L. Ed. 2d 98
  • 1989 U.S. LEXIS 2027
  • 29 Wage & Hour Cas. (BNA) 369
  • 57 U.S.L.W. 4429
  • 10 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2233

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that Massachusetts criminal statute requiring employers to pay employees for unused vacation time was not preempted by ERISA because it did not concern an ERISA benefit plan
  • resting deference to Secretary of Labor on specific congressional delegation of rule-making authority to “define accounting, technical, and trade terms”
  • Supreme Court looks to provisions of whole law when interpreting federal statutes
  • ERISA’s vesting provisions do not apply to welfare benefit plans

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Judges: Stevens

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